Charter for Working Group

The Calendaring and Scheduling standards, defined in RFC's 2445, 2446, and 2447 were released in November 1998, and further described in RFC 3283. They were designed to progress the level of interoperability between dissimilar calendaring and scheduling systems. The Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification, iCalendar, succeeded in establishing itself as the common format for exchanging calendaring information across the Internet. On the other hand, only basic interoperability has been achieved between different scheduling systems.

The Calsify working group is chartered to:

(1) Revise the Calendaring and Scheduling Standards to advance the state of interoperable calendaring and scheduling by addressing the known interoperability issues, errata, and problems found based on implementation experience.

(2) Clarify the registration process for iCalendar extensions (i.e., the current core object specification only provides a template to register new properties).

(3) Provide a means to ease transition from, and to co-exist with, the earlier iCalendar standards to the new ones.

Proposing an XML representation or transformation of iCalendar objects is out of the scope of this working group.

Depending on the results of the update process on the standards documents the working group will consider whether advancing the documents to draft standard is appropriate. If we decide to move the documents to draft status, milestones may get changed and/or added to allow for any additional work necessary to advance the documents.